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Just realized: November (and the XMAS shopping season) is just around the corner. Which means shipping schedules are going to get tighter by the day. Those 2-3 weeks it takes Hachette to ship orders is going to seriously impact the book gifting season. Some may to turn to B&M but some are just going to gift a different book.

In fact, even if they finally start negotiating now it is going to be pretty hard for Amazon to fully stock up in time for the holidays. There’s 8 weeks left and even a clean negotiation with S&S took 3 weeks and it takes Hachette 2-4 weeks to ship out an order so it is virtually impossible for Amazon to stock up before cyber monday.